I’ve got an external hard drive formatted as MAC extended.those mxf files are there, and I installed xdcam transfer plugin.I just know the mxf files were by sony xdcam, but don’t know which models are.I need to edit them with FCPX ASAP.

It’s not strange if you are trapped in the errors when importing your Sony Raw MXF files into FCP X, due to the format limitation, codec structure, etc, for editing Sony xdcam MXF footage in FCP X, we are on the way to find the best method to convert Sony xdcam MXF to Apple ProRes MOV there.How to Open Sony xdcam 4K MXF Files in FCP for Editing?

Step 1.Launch the program and click “Add ” button to import the Sony xdcam MXF files to the MXF Converter for Mac program. Batch conversion is supported.
Step 2. Go to “Format” bar and choose “Final Cut Pro> Apple PreRes 422″ or “Apple ProRes 422 HQ” or “Apple ProRes 4444″ as the output format. You can choose the most suitable one as you need.
Step 3. Tips: If you want to set some parameters for the output profile, you could click the “Settings” button to set the output bitrate, encode, frame rate, resolution, sample rate, channels, etc.

Back to the main interface, click the “Convert” button to start converting Sony xdcam MXF files to ProRes 422 for FCP X, FCP 7 and FCP 6. The process may take a while for 4K videos are too large. You can let the cute MXF Converter for Mac do the rest job itself. Once the conversion is 100% completed, you can transfer your videos to FCP X/7/6 for further editing without any problem. You can click “Open” button to locate the converted video files.